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3rd Box - Follow up to [...]Unscripted Guitar Solo
Filed Under (Exercise, General Guitar Tip, Improvisation, Random Thought, Scales) by Frank on 18-08-2008
Tagged Under : Improvisation, Pentatonic, Pentatonic Boxes, Pentatonic Minor, Scale, TuxGuitar
As a follow up post to “Create your Own Custom, Unique, Unscripted Guitar Solo!“, I wanted to post the next box to learn — oh, yes — there are more boxes. There are a total of five Pentatonic Minor scales (in the key of A). The post mentioned above introduced you to the first two - Box 1 and Box 2.
This post will introduce you to what is referred to as Box 3. The music below is Box 3 in A (Making this [also] A Pentatonic Minor). Keep in mind, for this previous series with the 3 boxes (so far) they have all been a A Pentatonic Minor scale, only on different positions on the neck of the Guitar.
A Pentatonic Minor - Box 3
You can download the TuxGuitar file here: TuxGuitar file - A Pentatonic Minor - Box 3
Remember to first memorize and practice the scale. Afterwards you can set yourself free with the scale; you can play around and improvise within the scale. Enjoy!
Bonus: Following is me practicing this scale with effects from my Pod v2. I’m posting it to illustrate how I sound when first learning a scale. I figure that it might make readers more comfortable with their practice to know that my material is full of mistakes also (it would for me). Note: The following is full of mistakes.
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Hey.
Nice blog.
Would you like to exchange links?
I have a blog (http://srv1.blogspot.com/) and a website (http://guitars.110mb.com/)
Tnx
Ben.G.
Bens last blog post..Are System Of A Down Will performing At Eurovision?
So, what you say?
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Hi Ben,
I’m sorry I haven’t gotten back to you sooner. I’m going to e-mail you when I get home from my office (day job). Ok?
Regards,
Frank
Thank god I’m not the only one!
The thing I find strange about scales is how quickly you remember them, they also certainly help with the movement up and down the neck. My main problem at the moment seems to be with the chords but I guess this sort of comes over time. When I started a couple of months ago I couldn’t remember the names of the chords I was learning either and now they seem fairly easy to remember which must mean I’m getting somewhere
My main problem at the moment seems to be fat fingers and transitions between chords.
I have steered clear of listening to lessons as I figured they would put me off and wonder what your thoughts on that are?
Still keeping an eye on your site and its still providing me with both help and confidence when I feel I’m not doing as well I as hoped.
Cheers,
Shane.
Chains last blog post..Short stints then maybe a long couple
Hey Chain,
Thanks so much for stopping by. I’m not sure how long you’ve been playing but what I found works with chords is drilling them.
Just keep playing different chord progressions over and over again. It will become easier to play certain chords.
The only time I’ve not had success with this method is barred chords. I’m not sure why, and I’m trying to figure it out. It may just take more time…
If what you are having trouble with is barred chords, you can check out this post: http://www.understandingguitar.org/2008/05/01/changing-chords-quickly/ it helped me a bit but I’m still not where I want to be with them.
Regarding your question: When you say “listen to lessons”, do you mean lessons on the Internet or from a physical teacher (face-to-face)? If you mean on the Internet, I’d say it is probably better to avoid them. Most are simply too focused/short-sighted to help a beginner. They might be good if a teacher teaches you something and you want more info on that. With that said, I would endorse using a guitar/music teacher. I did for a while and had some success, but I eventually had to stop the lessons due to his method of teaching.
Does this answer your question?
Regards,
Frank
Hi Frank,
Thanks for your comments on here and on my blog hehe.. Yes I was talking about recorded lessons as many people seem to swear by then (or at them?).
Yes I’m a mad person and actually take my acoustic with me when I work away I very carefully place it in the back of the van and make sure it can’t get damaged, surprising how attached you become to it.
I’m going to pick up a metronome as soon as I’m back and try practising to that.
To answer the question about working away.. I work on offshore wind farms (pictures of fields in the sea of little wind mills with lumberjack chopping men on the back, where else did you think they grew?) so from time to time I do work offshore which I’m dreading as worried about the guitar on transfers..
Been playing since March before then never picked up a guitar at all (unless you count rock band or guitar hero which are one of the reasons).
Lastly your site has been mega helpful a number of times many thanks
Chains last blog post..Short stints then maybe a long couple